Riot and Frolic

I'm going to make a quilt.  Not because I know how to, but because I needed another crafty thing to obsess about it.  It all started with this quilt:

It's from the amazing Alicia Paulson, over at Posie Gets Cozy (a pretty blog), where she makes stuff like this.  I have always thought quilting was an old lady thing to do, where you scrap together leftovers from that prairie skirt you were making to make a useful item to keep you warm at night.  First of all, is that so bad?  (Well, maybe the prairie skirt part; I have never looked good in those.)  Then second, I would find neat-o quilts like this:

Dang, I love lines.  (I love lamp.)  I mean, the clean, graphic design of this is killer. Simple.  This beaut is from Soule Mama, who is my kind of quilter.

Here she is making a quilt with her cutie daughter.  How fun is that?  I'm pretty sure they made this quilt in a day.  I'm not aiming that high, but I'm definitely not hand-stitching the whole thing and I want to do something simple.  The stripes seem very do-able.  Sew two pieces together and repeat, right?  (Are you quilters laughing at me right now?)

Here are the color combos I'm thinking of…   They're pretty much identical, but they'll match the girls' room.

  I'm thinking about a quilt for an upcoming special occasion gift in these colors:

I hope someone, or two people, don't read this too carefully.  Maybe I lost one of them at "quilt."  So, 252 words later, he's not reading anymore, right?  The lady one?  Earmuffs.  Or blindfold.

Then let's not hide the fact that my great bro-ski is getting married and I might try to make him and his awesome fiance a quilt for a wedding gift.  My bro is great.  He lives in the afore-mentioned Ojai, CA and shows little kids how to rock (by teaching music) and surfs and has a sweet album that I jam out to in the car.  (Thanks for pic, Derek.)

*removes blindfold from lovely sister-in-law-to-be*

Back to quilts, aren't jelly rolls the cutest?  

All the nifty fabric above I found through the Fat Quarter Shop, except for the "ocean" bundle, which was here.

Is fabric the new spray-paint?

I know.